Comments on: Apple's blow to Microsoft may be glancing

The Mac maker throws some more verbal shots at Vista, but it fails to deliver the sub-$800 punch that could have really left Redmond hurting.

[rgersmrk]

I'm curious to see how much Apple's market share really hurts Microsoft. I've never really seen a study done to see Apple's market share pre-Intel/boot camp to present day with a survey asking people how many bought Apple computers because of the ability of using Windows on it with boot camp.

It would be an interesting study no matter what the results were.

[dmjossel]

You're taking Apple to task for not meeting an unrealistic price point set by an unfounded rumor?

Doesn't that give rise to suspicions that the rumor itself came from those who wanted, after the fact, to be able to describe the announcements as disappointing?

Apple trying to shave another couple hundred off the old MacBook (and $999 is the price for the old one, not the one with any of the new features) is hardly a cause for concern in Redmond. If anything, in fact, it would represent desperation on Apple's part to increase sales and flagging margins, and that would be good news, because Apple's margins are what feed its R&D expenses, and those are what generate products like the MacBook and the iPod and the iPhone.

Apple's sales year ond year and quarter on quarter are still going up, and they are largely maintaining higher than industry average growth figures and margins. That should be worrying to those who consider Apple their competition. An $800 MacBook? The beginning of a slide into Delldom, where the only differentiator you can compete on is price. Apple will hit that price point if and when they can maintain their margin when they do it. A company that is competing only on price has nothing else to offer and is of no particular interest to consumers who have cash they are willing to spend on a product that is compelling. For good or ill, those people are Apple's clients.

[eldernorm]

CNET readers /comment makers are an interesting bunch. They used to be all MS lovers. OK, like what you like.

But now I see more and more Apple users and like their machines and software. Many of the MS commenters spend lots of time putting down Apple...... but little time boosting Microsoft. Maybe cause here is nothing to boost.

Just a thought.

PS. Everytime I look, I see more and more Apple users posting. Could this be a trend?? Will there come a day when the Apple commenters outnumber the PC commenters???

Just a thought.
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[vmlenigma]

Hmmm I gave my niece a Macbook, running Leopard and bootcamp so I could load a bootlegged copy of Vista, the macbook runs fine....I didnt get taxed not yet its been a about a year since i did....I wonder if apple is still calculating this so called tax.....maybe because i only paid 20 pesos for this bootleg copy....how much is the tax on a 20 pesos , based on today's crappy economy maybe 2 pesos? and still NO TAX why? because it doesnt Exist
its just MS BS just like Vista, Zune, Bob, Windows ME,Clippy in Microsoft Office 97,SPOT Watches, Microsoft Creative Writer,Microsoft Actimates,MSN Network - The Original,DOS 4.0: MS-DOS...anyone care to add to this long and growing list.